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optical coherence tomography

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.74 in modern English

Syllables
op-ti-cal -co-her-ence -to-mog-ra-phy
IPA
48
Scrabble Score
26
Letters
10
Syllables
14
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A noninvasive imaging test that uses light waves to capture high-resolution, cross-sectional pictures of the tissue within the eyes.

Uncountable

Etymology

From optical + coherence + tomography.

Usage

Inflected Forms

OCT (abbreviation)

Phrases

doppler optical coherence tomography dual-axis optical coherence tomography endoscopic optical coherence tomography intracoronary optical coherence tomography spectroscopic optical coherence tomography

Questions

What does optical coherence tomography mean?
A noninvasive imaging test that uses light waves to capture high-resolution, cross-sectional pictures of the tissue within the eyes.
Where does optical coherence tomography come from?
From optical + coherence + tomography.

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